From The FEniCS project
Installation with the help of Fink and Dorsal
The following instructions serve as something of a meta-installation guide. They help you get started with Fink and Dorsal, a couple of tools which greatly expedite (and mostly automate) the building of FEniCS projects and their numerous dependencies on your Mac OS X machine.
- You will first need to fetch and install Fink (the source release). Either during initial setup or using fink configure, enable the use of unstable packages.
- Fetch an archive of the Dorsal build script.
- Uncompress the archive, modify dorsal.cfg to your liking and run ./dorsal.sh.
When run, the script will provide you with Leopard-specific tips regarding the installation of any pre-requisite software (via Fink). It will then proceed to do the brunt of the work of fetching, configuring, compiling and installing everything you need to run DOLFIN and the other FEniCS projects.
Once it successfully completes the install, it will leave you with friendly usage tips pertinent to your machine should they be necessary.
